Meanings
plural mic drops · alternative mic-drop
- idiomaticslangAn instance of dropping the mic.
Many crypto bros try to silence skeptics with the same mic drop: “Have fun staying poor.”
2022 March 31, David Yaffe-Bellany, “Ben McKenzie Would Like a Word With the Crypto Bros”, in The New York Times, →ISSN1 more example
No mic drop in history will ever be as thoroughly scrutinised as the one performed by Barack Obama during his final White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday evening. Historians hundreds of years from now will refer to his “Obama out” in the same breath as the Emancipation Proclamation and “Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”
2016 May 2, Stuart Heritage, “‘Obama out’: a brief history of mic drops”, in The Guardian
present singular third person mic drops · participle present mic dropping · participle past mic dropped · past mic dropped · alternative mic-drop
- Synonym of drop the mic.
Synonyms: drop the mic
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of drop the mic.
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